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Possible to set "x-small" font as a specific size?

Hello,

I have some html that uses this:

style="font-size: x-small

Apparantly, x-small nearly equals 10 pt. when viewed in IE. But it's tiny when viewed from Firefox - probably the equivalent of 8 pt or size="1". Font that small is impossible to read on screens with high resolution, and many of the visitors use Firefox (almost 50% for one our sites!) so this is a problem.

How do I correct this? It seems like "x-small" is some kind of relative font size...

Is there any way I can control this so that it appears the same for all browsers?

(It is not possible to use anything but "x-small" as the font, as it is inserted automatically by the tinyMCE editor used to create the page code.)

Maybe I can use CSS to specify that "x-small = 10pt" or something like that?